NoStove 13: Meal delivery for new parents

Did you watch the debate this week? Taylor Swift certainly did. She has time for that but not to cook her meals. Guess she has her priorities right and so do Swifties.

📖 🍁 Schools are back in session and Fall is the perfect time for parents to embrace some well-deserved "me" time before the busy festival season kicks off in less than eight weeks. We are here to remind you NOT to get busy with the kitchen chores and opt for meal delivery instead!

👼🍼 New parents! - Congratulations on getting to raise a Virgo baby. Known for being reliable, practical, and thoughtful. They are good friends and are often asked for advice by others. Don’t miss our Spotlight section!

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🌟 Spotlight: 🍼 Meal Delivery For New Parents

The arrival of a new baby in the family is a huge change to the life of new (and current!) parents. Those first few weeks and months parents are totally consumed in caring for the baby, mom is recovering, and no one is sleeping much. Finding time to prepare and cook food can be a big challenge. Here are some options of how you can help parents prepare for their new arrival by having meals stocked in their fridge or freezer for them.

Cook and freeze meals in advance: The cheapest option is to prepare meals in advance and freeze them so they can be reheated when the parents need them. This can be done by the parents themselves before the baby’s arrival, by grandparents or other relatives or friends that want to help out! Casseroles are good examples of comfort food that freeze well and can be made in large portions.

Organize a meal train: A meal train is an organized way for people to coordinate and prepare meals for someone who needs them. People are asked to signup to cover a date and they either cook or buy the meals for the person. Meal trains are often organized informally by signing up on a shared doc like a Google Doc, or can be done using free sites like mealtrain.com. The doc or page should specify who it’s for, what dates people can sign up for and any dietary preferences or info people need to know to provide the right meals.

Ready-to-eat meal delivery: If there isn’t time to make a home-cooked meal or you live too far to drop off food, ordering meal delivery is a great idea. Rather than ordering from restaurants, meal delivery provide a healthier option and are packaged in a way that they store well for days or weeks in the fridge or months in the freezer. Many meal delivery programs require subscriptions, but here are some that offer a la carte and one-time orders.

• Spoonful of Comfort delivers care packages of soups, bread, and cookies for a variety of occasions. Get 10% off your first order with email signup.

• Splendid Spoon is a meal delivery service that offers a variety of pre-made, plant-based meals and smoothies. You can purchase one-time boxes or get a weekly subscription. Meals arrive frozen. They offer grain bowls, noodles, soups, smoothies and juices.

• Pete’s Real Food offers paleo, vegan, Keto, and AIP meals. Meals ship fresh in vacuum sealed packaging. They also offer frozen packs.

• What A Crock. If they are crockpot users, What a Crock offers frozen meals ready to put directly in the crockpot to cook.

• Harry & David and has gourmet comfort meal options that make a nice gift.

• Go local! Search their zip code on nostove.com to find a local company that makes and delivers meals right by them!

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🍲 Recipe Corner: Chicken Feta Broccoli Quinoa

We like this simple recipe because its just a sheet pan to cook everything everything except the quinoa. Cook the quinoa in a rice cooker!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup (8oz) feta cheese (block is best but crumbled works)

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 1 cup cherry tomatoes

• 2 cups chopped broccoli florets

• 1 + 1/2 lbs boneless chicken breast

• 1 tsp salt

• 1/2 tsp black pepper

• 2 tsp garlic powder

• 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves

• 1 cup cooked quinoa

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large casserole dish, add the feta block, olive oil, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, and chicken, spacing the chicken evenly and placing the feta in the middle.

• Cover everything with the salt, pepper, and garlic powder and toss to coat.

• Bake for 30 minutes, or until chicken temp is 160 degrees. If you need to cook the quinoa, do so while this bakes. After removing from the oven, take out the chicken and slice or shred it.

• Mix everything well in the casserole dish without the chicken, then add in the basil and quinoa and stir again.

• Add the chicken back in, top with some extra oil and basil if desired, and serve. The recipe makes 4 servings and stores well in the refrigerator for 3-4 days in an airtight container.

🔥 Deals & Discounts

Here’s a list of our current deals and promo codes for meal delivery companies that ship nationally.

• ModifyHealth - Get 20% off with code nostove.

• Dinnerly - Get up to $140 off over 5 orders with code AFF140W

• Fuel Meals - Get 40% off with code NOSTOVE40

• Eat Clean To Go - Get 50% off with this link

• Marley Spoon - Get up to $235 off over 5 orders with code AFF235W

• Factor - Get 50% off with email signup

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